Cattle Drive

{{Short description|1951 film by Kurt Neumann}} {{for|the practice of walking herd|Cattle drive}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Use American English|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = Cattle Drive | image = Cattle Drive FilmPoster.jpeg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Kurt Neumann | producer = Aaron Rosenberg | writer = Lillie Hayward Jack Natteford | starring = Joel McCrea Dean Stockwell Chill Wills Leon Ames Bob Steele | cinematography = Maury Gertsman | editing = Danny B. Landres | color_process = Technicolor | studio = Universal International Pictures | distributor = Universal Pictures | released = {{Film date|1951|08|01|}} | runtime = 77 minutes | country = United States | language = English }} '''''Cattle Drive''''' is a 1951 American Western film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell and Chill Wills. Much of the film was shot in Death Valley National Park, California and Paria, Utah.

The basic story echoes that of the 1937 film ''Captains Courageous'', adapted from a novel by Rudyard Kipling, although in the desert rather than at sea.<ref>{{cite book|author=Hanfling, Barrie|title=Westerns and the Trail of Tradition: A Year-by-Year History, 1929-1962|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson, NC|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Opg-CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA181|year=2016|isbn=978-0-7864-4500-4|page=181|access-date=2020-03-19}}</ref>

==Plot== Chester Graham Jr., the spoiled young son of a wealthy railroad owner, is lost in the middle of nowhere when he wanders away from a train during a water stop. He is found by a cowboy who is driving cattle. Lucky to be alive, Chester accompanies the cowboys and learns the value of hard work, self-discipline and comradeship on the trail to Santa Fe.

==Cast== * Joel McCrea as Dan Matthews * Dean Stockwell as Chester Graham Jr. * Chill Wills as Dallas * Leon Ames as Chester Graham Sr. * Henry Brandon as Jim Currie * Howard Petrie as Cap * Bob Steele as Charlie "Careless" Morgan * Griff Barnett as Conductor O'Hara

==Production== Parts of the film were shot in Paria, Utah, and Death Valley.<ref>{{cite book|last1=D'Arc|first1=James V.|title=When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah|date=2010|publisher=Gibbs Smith|location=Layton, Utah|isbn=9781423605874|edition=1st}}</ref>

==See also== *Cattle drive

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=0043389|title=Cattle Drive}} * {{AFI film|50048|title=Cattle Drive}} * {{TCMDb title|70501|title=Cattle Drive}}

Category:1951 films Category:Universal Pictures films Category:1951 Western (genre) films Category:Films directed by Kurt Neumann Category:American Western (genre) films Category:Films shot in Utah Category:Films shot in California Category:1951 English-language films Category:1951 American films Category:English-language Western (genre) films